6th Annual University Startups Conference 2012

Jan 18, 2012 - Jan 20, 2012

Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C

The Annual University Startups Conference will take place on 18-20 January 2012 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. with an Opening Reception on January 18, 2012.

The Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2.org). The Government Co-Hosts are the National Science Foundation (Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership) and National Institutes of Health (Office of Tech Transfer). The Venture Capital Sponsors are the National Venture Captial Association (NVCA) and the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF).

The University Startups Conference is a unique conference series dedicated exclusively to creating and funding globally competitive, venture-backable university startups. We bring together universities creating startups with VCs, angel investors, SBIR program managers and Fortune 500 technology scouts funding them. The conference also includes NSF, NIH, NIST, DOD, DOE, DHS and other government agencies working on improving the Innovation Economy by increasing the quality and quantity of startups coming out of universities.

BILAT-USA (Grant Agreement no: 244434) and Link2US (Grant Agreement no: 244371) Projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Capacities Programme on International Cooperation under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Cooperation.